Vijay's Mersal has been facing issues for quite some time now. Prior to the release of the film, the AWBI has stopped the film's release quoting that the team did not take the NOC for showcasing animals in the film. Now, post-release, the film has been receiving accusations for the dialogues based on GST and the Digital India scheme.

First, it was Tamil Nadu's BJP leaders Tamilisai Soundararajan and Pon Radhakrishnan who spoke against the film for its dialogues and then some politicians as well as commoners condemned it and said that the dialogues must be taken off. Contrastingly, director Pa Ranjith has now stated that the dialogues must not be removed from the film as it directly reflects upon the issues faced by people.